Dr. Fiona Maisels, Conservation Scientist & Regional Coordinator of wildlife monitoring Programmes in The Congo Basin for WCS, covered the following topics:

• Current Elephant poaching crisis
• Ancient elephant distribution and elimination from much of the Old World
• Elephant role in the modern ecosystem
• Elephant/ megafauna past role in ecosystems; and repercussions thereof

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